Biomedical Informatics Core

The Biomedical Informatics Core (BMI) is a resource for service, education, and innovation in the management of clinical and translational biomedical data. We can help clinical/translational researchers to:

  • Determine what clinical data is available in the electronic medical record (for power calculation, for eligibility determination, and/or for data collection during a study)
  • Determine which solution for electronic case report forms is most suited to your clinical/translational research study
  • Determine which tools are available for linking high-throughput instrumentation data for your study with clinical and care report form data
  • Determine which resources are necessary to include in a grant proposal to enable BMI to electronically gather and manage data in support of your core
  • Assist in language to support informatics resources for grant applications
  • Coordinate with the Center for Biomedical Statistics as needed

We offer pre-award consultation for grant preparation (10-20 hours), extended consultation (>20 hours), and post-award consultation. Pre-award consultations are free if future BMI resource funding is included in your grant proposal.

For example, a researcher enrolling patients into a translational research study at the UW may ask for an extended consultation to:

  • identify eligible patients based on electronic medical record (EMR) data,
  • extract laboratory data from the EMR for enrolled patients,
  • collect case report form data electronically,  and
  • link this data together for statistical analysis.

 

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